What’s going on here?
This is what i was greeted with when playing call of duty modern warfare 2. The whole screen froze. After powering off and re-trying several times, the red ring of death appeared. Thankfully the XBOX was still under Microsofts 3 year extended warrantee. it is now with Microsofts service centre in Germany. Previous conversations with friends who’ve had similar problems lead me to believe that the problem will re-occur after about another year, after which it will be out of warrantee and i’ll be buying a playstation 3 slim.
I’m not a huge game player, i don’t want to pay monthly or yearly for a service i will rarely use. As XBOX expands to include facebook and other apps, i’m told i have to be a gold member, i’m not, and don’t plan on being one. Friends tell me the PS3 has a web browser, blue ray player, connects great to mac’s streaming movies, (being recommended over the Apple TV no less). The only thing keeping me from selling my refurbished XBOX in part exchange for a new playstation is project nadal, however i now hear that nadal will use 15% of the XBOX’s processing power, and therefore not work with all existing games, and unlikely to work with those i play. So that too has been brought into question. It seems that Sony’s PS3 has sold 3.5million stations over the christmas 09. i’m seeing a re-surgence in the PS3 that will corner the XBOX into the ‘hardcore online gaming only’ community. the rest of us will be looking for a more rounded product.




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